San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-26
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

GALVESTON takes another step forward
In municipal development, and will soon
substitute electric motors for mule
power on her street railway lines.
The death order from the supreme
court of Illinois has reached the Cook
county sheriff, and the death watch up
on the condemned has been set. Gen.
Prier will need all his energies to secure
a stay of execution.
CLEVELAND confers a benefit on his
generation. In his swinging around the
magic circle, a la Andy, he announces
that there will be no speechmaking.
The Cincinnati Times-Star regards this
as a timely notice to newspapers not to
lay in extra fonts Of capital Is.
The Virginia republicans show signs
OF aggressiyeness. The slumbering and
dormant energies of the party are wax
ing into life and there is scarcely a
doubt or their recovering a portion Of
the state from democratic rule. An in
creased republican delegation in con-
gress from that state IL confidently
looked for.
O'BRIEN has been sentenced by British
gag law to three months imprisonment
for exercising his right of free speech.
The nation that cannot stand the pres
sure of free speech is los. In this day
and generation. 1t is only question Of
time when these all must 60.
GEORGIA poses as the God and morality
state of the south: taxes native wine
rooms the sum of $4,000; runs jug
train into Atlanta; Furnishes white
teachers of colOred children with fine and
imprisonment; counts out cOIored votes
that interfere with democratic elections:
and thanks God that she is still in the
ranks OF the democratic states-Selah!
How is it that while Growers tri-
umphal march lies directly through
Ohio he makes no stopping place in the
BuCkeye state? Is Ohio SO small that
FOr'acre covers 1t and leaves no room
for the sole of the foot OF the dove of
democracy?
AUSTIN proposes to add a new feature
to her drill exercises and will offer
prizes for the best military bands and
drum corps, also for cowboy exhibitions
and such other rare shows as in the
judgment OF her drill committee will be
attractive. Her prospectus, which will
be published in few days, offers larger
prizes, it is said, than have ever been Of
fered in the state. or in the United
States, perhaps.
TIE Brownsville press persuader hsv-
ing alarmed the " hole country over the
reported innundAtion of that city and
MatsmOras, next day quietly cOntradicts
his telegram and pockets his fees for
both dispatches. This journalistic en-
terprise should not go unrewarded. A
hickory club would be fitting souvenir
Of such services
PEARsALL has taken on new life since
the rains have come. Frio county is no
more despOnding and the talk OF emigra-
tiOn is no more heard. 1t does not take
much to make a Texan cOntented and
prosperous. He can not endure dry
land, that Ii is he lie bette nOir. Give him
moisture and he is happy. just now
Texas smiles and grows green under
weeping skies.
TIE old idea OF forsging on the enc
my was carried to its extreme logical
outcome, by the Pacific railway COM
mission at San Francisco, which, after
investigating the company IN behalf of
the United States, for the purpose of
proving United States claim against
it, turns around and bOrrOws $1,000
from the company to pay hotel and rail-
road expenses.
DULUTH is great seaport and as a
wheat mart is making Minneapolis de-
cidedly sick, bot ii cannot be said OF It
that the Inhabitants ever remark, 81
am no more sick" They die before
they get that far along. Its tempera-
ture reaches over 100 in midsummer,
and that means about 100 in Texas,
while in winter 1t drops to 90 below
zero. Catarrh and bronchitis catch the
unwary residents In their toll, until con-
sumption gets in its work
and finishes them. There is
more in life than good wheat
deal by good deal. Man lives by breath
as we'll as by bread and he keeps the air
| OF life longer In his body In this region
OF Texas than in any other spot on the
fOOtstool.
The indications are pretty good that
the solid sense OF the Central Labor
| Union does not intend to put the So
cialistic element OF that organization
into the saddle. The attempts, persis-
tent and determined, chat have been
made to control that body by and for
the socialists has been distinguished
failure so far. 1t is devOutly to be
wished that this population Of social
istic tendencies and teaching by so
respectable body Of working men as
the Central Labor Union will be made
| permanent, and that these social disln-
! tegratOrs will not be allowed in the
! future any more power Of control than
! they are permitted to eXersise now.